The Secretary-General’s pledge to take real steps presents a serious opportunity, which the Security Council has a responsibility to support in accordance with its own long-standing and unfulfilled resolutions. With a seemingly endless list of global crises, there will be the temptation to do the easy thing and kick the can down the road with platitudes of support that aren’t backed by concrete action. That would be a shortsighted mistake, and the people of Western Sahara deserve better.